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Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

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Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

Cooking makes food more digestible and kills off bacteria, and every human society in the world does it. But where and when it started is hotly debated

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Death: A special report on the inevitable

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Death: A special report on the inevitable

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Bryan Johnson presenting some of his ideas

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$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

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Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

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Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

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Primate labs give us an edge, says China's brain project chief

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Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

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Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

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children with Downs

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Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down's

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Woman showing toddlers a children's book

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Smarter every day: Increasing intelligence changed how we see IQ

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Behind the scenes at London's urban archaeology warehouse

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Behind the scenes at London's urban archaeology warehouse

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Diver surfaces as colleague standing above him holds large mastodon bone

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First Americans hunted big game in Florida 14,500 years ago

Tools and butchered mastodon bones challenge the idea that giant mammals went extinct soon after people first settled in the Americas

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Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

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Evolution acting on older dads is protecting our genetic health

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Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life

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Who do you think you are? 4 rules can help you know yourself

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